Bad Blood

was biomathematics, the use of mathematical models to help understand phenomena in biology. He was in charge of the predictive m ...

the cartridges, slot the cartridges into the readers, and see if they tested positive for the virus. Once again, things did not ...

Sunny’s connections there were shady and that he was paying bribes to obtain blood samples from infected patients. When a collea ...

harassed him, which led Seth to look for another job. He found one a few months later at a company based in Redwood City called ...

By February 2010, after six months on the job, Chelsea had lost all her enthusiasm for working at Theranos and was thinking of q ...

She offered to stay on for a transition period, but Elizabeth and Sunny didn’t want her to. If Chelsea was leaving, better she d ...

A | SEVEN | Dr. J s the calendar turned from 2009 to 2010, America remained mired in a deep economic malaise. Over the previous ...

Google’s Android operating system were beginning to usher in a shift to mobile computing, as cellular networks became faster and ...

Chicago suburb of Deerfield, Illinois, and gave a presentation to a group of Walgreens executives. Dr. J, who flew up from Penns ...

and stock the shelves of the pharmacies he ran on air bases in New York, Texas, and New Mexico. As familiar as he was with drugs ...

would aim to expand their partnership nationwide. It was unusual for Walgreens to move this quickly. Opportunities the innovatio ...

Walgreens team his office. There was a sleeping bag on the floor behind his desk, his bathroom had a shower in it, and he kept a ...

reminded Hunter of a groupie who’d flown across the country to attend a concert played by his favorite band. When they reconvene ...

consultant for the innovation team, didn’t take part in the meeting. But when he heard that several Walgreens executives had had ...

and used for their testing. But no one closely regulated tests that labs fashioned with their own methods. Elizabeth and Sunny h ...

the one black-and-white reader Theranos had left with them after the Project Beta kickoff party. He was dying to tear the strips ...

Hopkins Medicine to any product or service.” Hunter told Van den Hooff the letter was meaningless. Judging from the Belgian’s ex ...

not only more convenient, but faster and cheaper. She brought along one of her black-and-white devices to demonstrate how it wor ...

suspicions seriously were dashed in mid-December 2010 when Van den Hooff informed his colleagues that he would be leaving at the ...

wanted him on the calls or in meetings between the companies. They felt that he was creating too much tension and that it interf ...